Thread: Was the child's 'dementia' a cop out? disappointment? *spoilers*

It lasts as long as it can though (the moment before Benjamin dies he remembers Daisy and knows who she is/was). Though I agree, dichotomy wasn't the best word to use. You could also view that in the end their love does endure through Caroline. As for him getting to be a child, his behavior on the roof is very child-like to me, and not that of a man with Alzheimers. Though he apparently did go in and out of this, at times remembering his...

and therefore when he is looking like a young child but is actually aged 80 or so... the dementia bought it to life. But why would he have dementia of all things? Dementia is a physical condition, the brain is physical. As the body got younger, the brain would also get younger. The only substantial "unraveling" of Benjamin's mental processes would come during the last year of his life, with the demyelinization of his...

He isn't able to "truly be a child". Children aren't basically 'adults with dementia'. The very idea demeans both children, and adults with dementia. The reason it's a cop out is because it in no way explores the concept of the film. What you describe as "the tragedy of him forgetting the love of his life, his daughter and everything he held dear" is the tragedy of Alzheimers....

"But why would he have dementia of all things? Dementia is a physical condition, the brain is physical. As the body got younger, the brain would also get younger. " Since we are all speculating. It wasn't necessarily Dementia. Since I'm sure that this would have been a unique case, the doctors wouldn't have known that Button's brain was devolving and he was losing memory and things he had learned as his...

I was thinking it was interesting that he should have known when he would die based on his appearance at birth, unless some disaster occurred perhaps. Same thing we do every night try to take over the world

Regarding Benjamin's onset of "dementia", one possible explanation would be brain development: As a child grows into a teenager, the brain develops and grows with him, and with that, the number of neurons increase. In the case of Benjamin, however, as he is a teenager who is turning into a child, his brain's development process is going backwards. That is, his brain is becoming smaller, and the number of neurons in...

His mind was becoming like a child's....and that is similar to dementia. I think it was a good way to end the story. Now Playing: America's Got Talent

The film changed so much from the story from the onset that to call it a cop-out is wrong. The film created a different story and to this, it stayed logical. From the onset, we hear Cathrine read Button's story and him state that he is writing it while he can remember it so when know he will lose his mind. We see him learn to read and speak and his fascination with objects so we see while his body is old, him mind is aging normally. The...

Didn't the parentheticals in the script describe the condition as dementia?

hmm im not sure how this works..its possible to grow but is it possible to shrink..where do the extra tissues go :P